In a collaboration born from overlapping terms in the School of Natural Sciences, Elena Murchikova, Member (2018–22) and frequent Visitor, and Kailash Sahu, Member (2022–23), have challenged prevailing assumptions about the visibility of isolated black holes.
On April 10, 2019, we were presented with the first-ever
close-up image of a black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope
(EHT). This remarkable technological achievement was made possible
by the collective efforts of hundreds of astrophysics...